News Items:

• The reorganized, restructured, renamed KGB will retain most of its six million informers.
• Over 350 former Contra freedom fighters in Nicaragua (including Contra military commander Enrique Bermudez) have been assassinated by the Sandanistas over the past 12 months.
• The Organization of American States (OAS) has reported that over 2,500 former Contras and their families have had to abandon their farms and flee to the mountains to avoid attacks by the Sandanistas. Many are digging up hidden weapons caches and attacking Sandanista military targets. The civil war has rekindled. [Ed. Note: A great example that "peace loving" Communists with an olive branch in their hand can never be trusted!]
  
• Seven of the 12 Soviet republics have reached agreements on entering the New Soviet Federation - the Union of Soviet Sovereign Republics (analysed in the November issue of The Fatima Crusader). Remember, the "old Soviet Union is dead long live the New Federation."
  
• Yelena Bonner, widow of Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov, said recently that the Soviets still have a totalitarian dictatorship which is being perpetuated in power by US and Western aid so it can continue repressing the Russian people.
• NATO defense chiefs, meeting in Sicily in October, agreed to cut their nuclear arsenal in Europe by 80%, effective immediately! (i.e., 2,800 out of 3,500 nuclear weapons will be removed and destroyed.)
  
• Seymour Hersh says in his new book, The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy, that Israel has gone to the brink of nuclear war three times in the past 18 years with its larger than estimated nuclear arsenal: twice when it was attacked during the 1973 Middle East war and again during the recent Persian Gulf war in January when Iraqi missiles began to rain down on Israel.
• China's Communist Party has ordered (11/12/91) intelligence agents and police to start a nationwide crackdown on "illegal religious activities" (i.e., any religious organizations or activities outside state control). Persecution of Chinese Christians and the underground church is now accelerating dramatically. [Ed. Note: George Bush - take note what your Chinese communist comrades and business partners are doing! This writer believes that the Soviets will launch a similar crackdown on Christians over the next year or two.]
  
• Mikhail Gorbachev said (11/12/91) that George Bush had warned him by phone last June that a hardliner coup was coming and that Bush concluded the conversation with: "My friend, take care." [Ed. Note: Concern between "comrades" is a touching thing, isn't it?]
• Even as President Bush is pulling US nuclear weapons and troops out of South Korea, North Korea is accelerating its production of its own nuclear weapons. Pentagon and Western intelligence officials fear that the USSR may be about to sell some of its 30,000 nuclear weapons to North Korea, Iraq and other communist countries and send its nuclear weapons experts to those countries.
• The cash-strapped Soviet Union is now selling advanced fighter planes (i.e., MIG 29s and 31s), advanced Scud missiles, upgraded T-72 tanks, and other weapons to Syria, Iraq, Iran, North Korea, Libya, Cuba and other radical or communist nations. The Soviet's huge weapons industry (i.e. 600 factories) is about to become the USSR's top foreign exchange earner.
• Soviet foreign debt now exceeds $81 billion, with default on debt payments expected momentarily. More US and Western bailouts will follow.
• While permitting junior high students in Dickson, Tennessee to submit papers on reincarnation, spiritualism, and the occult, the teacher refused to allow a Christian student to submit a paper on the life of Jesus Christ. The school board supported the teacher's decision.
• Police in Albany, California, have arrested two anti-abortion (pro-life) protestors on pornography charges for showing pictures of mutilated, aborted babies. Even the ACLU says this is a gross violation of the protestors' free speech and a perversion of pornography laws.
• Two percent of the deaths in the Netherlands are from euthanasia. An explosion of euthanasia initiatives are about to erupt around the world - the most far reaching of which is in Washington state.
• The Center for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta says that in 1990, 3.6 million teenage students across America considered suicide, that 2.1 million devised a suicide plan, and that 1 million actually made an attempt, and that 276,000 teenagers were injured in suicide attempts. The CDC says that 27.3% of the teenagers interviewed said they had seriously considered suicide in the previous 12 months.
• Wyandotte County, Kansas will no longer celebrate Good Friday. The day will now be called a "spring holiday." All over the country, due to pressure from the ACLU, atheist and secular humanist groups, school and city holidays for Christmas and Easter are being renamed "Winter break" and "Spring break".
• The US Immigration and Naturalization Service says that 123,000 Soviets entered the U.S. in the 10 months through July '91: 37,000 were described as refugees, 76,000 came as visitors or on business, and 5,000 came as students. The State Department is planning to give one year visa extensions to these Soviets. [Ed. Note: How can so many "impoverished" Russians afford to travel to and around the US? How many are KGB spies or Spetsnaz saboteurs?]
• The Soviet government has decided not to execute the Gang of Eight August coup plotters and their accomplices. Maximum sentences are expected to be 10-15 years and probably much less. [Ed. Note: This is not how the Soviets deal with genuine "traitors to the motherland."]
  
  
  
  
  

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